Major Tech Issue: Comp reboots when I scroll in NH view
Braveheart:
This has happened twice to me now and and its a bit disconcerting to say the least. I have installed Nightlife and all else seems to be okay to this point. The problem is when I use the arrow keys to scroll around my neighborhood while in the neighborhood view, my graphics suddenly garble and then my computer reboots. I have NEVER had this issue happen with Sims2 before or with anything else for that matter. Last night I ran a complete virus check, I cleaned up all files and ran a defragmentation. It rebooted again this morning. I went to PC Pitstop and ran a test and all systems pass with no issues at all. I went into setup and checked my CPU temperature and its running at 43 degrees celcius which is usual for my comp. All fans are working fine. I have updated my video driver. Any help or advice with this would be greatly appreciated. My system specs are as follows:
Pentium4 2200mhz
Windows Xp Home SP2
1024 mb ram
80gb hard drive 50% free space
GeForce FX 5200 128mb AGP video card
sara_dippity:
I had that before and I have the same vid card you do, the exact same. I updated my drivers and it went away.
Braveheart:
Sara?...Could you tell me what driver version you now have and where you got it? I am assuming you are using the same Operating System as I am. That would be a great help. Thanks
sara_dippity:
I am using the 71.89 drivers, you can find them here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html
There are newer drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_78.01.html
but I never download the newest drivers unless I have to or if I hear it fixes a bug I have. I've had problems in the past of updating drivers causing new problems that never get fixed, like bad artifacting and crashing in Sim City. I have to roll my stupid drivers back every time I play that game. Anyway, mine work with TS2 just fine. Oh, and I am on XP home edition.
sanmonroe:
I am having the same problem with both a 6800 and 7800 with the newest and the beta drivers. I am not crashing though. The game is also telling me that default/recommended graphics levels are all med or below!!! Major hit to performance since NL installation. Done everything froma clean boot to checking out Hijack this and doing FPS tests on other games.
Will try the 71 drivers.
If the new build and the beta build screw up TS2 I am going to be pissed since they finally fixed quite a bit of the problems and artifacts from shadows in other games.
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